Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:46 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote: >> >Any clues accepted. >> >> Do you have the reverse DNS set up correctly? > > I thought reverse DNS only mattered when you're using the PARANOID > wildcard.
>From what I understand, paranoid means the forward and reverse have to match. If you're allowing somename.com, a connection comes in, the only info it has about the source location is the source IP address, it doesn't yet know about the name. It then does a reverse lookup on the IP to get a name and uses that to match the hosts.allow file. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
